As Engadget noted, Unicode — the nonprofit that creates an emoji standard — might call it "Hairy Creature" because it wants the name to be understood globally, where Bigfoot might not be the preferred ...

You’ve come a long way, smiley face emoji. You’re now officially art, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, just like the Picassos and the Jackson Pollocks. Your… ...

While this year’s Emoji 15.0 draft includes 31 candidates, last year’s draft had 112 belonging to Emoji 14.0. All that is dwarfed by 334 emoji submissions shared between Emoji 13.0 and Emoji 13.1.

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.